Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of #SurveillanceCapitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” definitely lives up to its reputation. It’s a pummeling analysis of how #BigTech have taken over the modern era, harvesting information, details, sentiments, emotions, etc. from our lives, creating profiles & predictive models, & working to modify our behavior for the purpose of profit-making (all without most of us understanding or being aware of how we’ve been changed). #Reading
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Serious Question: who cares about #mastodon user counts? and why? – outside #SiliconValley #BigTech #VC #Media #Attention #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism interests?

#OpenWeb
#Privacy
#Encryption

If you don’t know what I mean when I say “surveillance capitalism” or “people farming”, here’s a quick overview I did for the BBC a little while ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy

(Where we differ with Shoshana, who coined the former term, is that she sees it as a corruption of capitalism, whereas I see it as the natural evolution of capitalism in the digital network age.)

#surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #VentureCapital #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #corporatocracy

« The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the #tracker, called the #Meta Pixel, sending #Facebook a packet of #data whenever a person clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment. The data is connected to an IP address […] creating an intimate receipt of the appointment request for Facebook » on https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-receiving-sensitive-medical-information-from-hospital-websites

#Privacy #DeleteFacebook #DeleteMeta #SurveillanceCapitalism